Author: Charles Tower HavenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colt firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
With a photograph of each model of the Colt revolver and facsimiles of numerous contemporary and historical documents.
A History of the Colt Revolver
Author: Charles Tower HavenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colt firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
With a photograph of each model of the Colt revolver and facsimiles of numerous contemporary and historical documents.
A History of the Colt Revolver and Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company From 1836-1940
Author: Frank A. BeldenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258018269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
A History of the Colt Revolver, and Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940
Author: Charles Tower HavenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A History of the Colt Revolver
Author: Charles T. HavenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colt firearms
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Legacy in Arms
Author: Richard C. RattenburyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147792
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development. This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century. With more than 200 images—almost all in full color—A Legacy in Arms not only documents the inspiration and innovation of arms makers from individual artisans to mass producers, but also describes the development of decorative expression in the gun maker’s art. In an account both entertaining and enlightening, Richard C. Rattenbury details the development of commercial arms making, from the genesis of the Kentucky rifle to the arms of such iconic manufacturers as Colt, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Sharps, Marlin, and Winchester. Into this narrative he weaves the particulars of design evolution and the impact of mass production via the “American System.” The accompanying photographs and illustrations stand as eloquent testimony to the range and richness of the gun maker's craft—and its rightful place in the story of American industry and culture.
Killer Colt
Author: Harold SchechterPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504094263
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An in-the-room account of John Colt’s scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Review). In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John’s rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt’s rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary revolver. With a killing that made headlines around the nation, John Colt became a cultural touchstone whose shocking villainy inspired and provoked such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Unlike his brother, John lived a nomadic existence, bouncing from one job to another. His one distinction, writing a reference accounting book, would play a part in his fall from grace. For in New York City, on September 17, 1841, John murdered printer Samuel Adams with a hatchet during a heated argument over proceeds from book sales. A media circus ensued, galvanizing the penny press, which printed lurid headlines and gruesome woodcut illustrations. The standing-room-only trial created unforgettable moments in legal history, including such dramatic evidence as Samuel Adams’s decomposed head. The verdict and its aftermath would reverberate throughout the country and beyond, giving John Colt lasting infamy. “[Schechter] leads us through Colt’s trial with such precision that you can smell the cigar smoke in the courtroom. . . . Killer Colt succeeds in making us care about this story now by showing why it mattered to so many people then.” —HistoryNet
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl Parcher RussellPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.
Preliminary Bibliography for the History of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps
Author: Keir Brooks SterlingRevolver
Author: Jim RasenbergerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501166395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl P. RussellPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
DIVThoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes those who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations. /div